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Of all the unlikely transformations completed down the years in the name of
Sport Relief (David Walliams of Little Britain turning into one of
our time’s leading open-water swimmers, Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards into a
vital proponent of modern dance at its most expressive, Ray Stubbs into the
target for thousands upon thousands of coloured plastic balls), surely none
was more remarkable than the reinvention this week of Michael Vaughan as a
stand-up comedian.

No disrespect to Vaughan, who has always seemed a man with an active sense of
humour and a dry wit. And presumably you don’t get to